Episode 200: Teenagers and Death

Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teens Into Adulthood

Kenneth Wilgus, PhD, P.C.

Christian Parenting, Christianity, Teens, Education, Teenagers, Kids, Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Adolescents, How To, Parenting Teens, Parents

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Today we take on the issue of teenagers' relationship with death. Do they think much about it? Why are some teens so focused on death in movies, games etc.? What's the deal with zombies? Jessica and Dr. Ken advise best ways to talk about the subject of death and the need to talk about and not run away from such an important subject, especially Christian parents. In this episode we reference the Netflix documentary "Don't Die" We also reference L.S. Dugdale MDs book "The Lost Art of Dying" https://a.co/d/e5vhDAq You can order Dr. Ken's book "Feeding The Mouth That Bites You" here: https://a.co/d/hBnlbzI Got questions or feedback? We want to hear from you! [email protected] Music provided by the great John David Kent - https://www.johndavidkent.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You, a weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world. I'm Jessica Pfeiffer, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:21.0	Hey, Dr. Ken.
0:22.6	Jessica, how are you?
0:24.3	People want to know.
0:25.6	How are you?
0:26.8	I'm doing well.
0:28.2	I get the feeling you're sort of asking about my health.
0:31.5	Is that where you're going with this?
0:32.8	Yes, we get emails, you know.
0:34.9	Yes, we do.
0:36.3	So last fall, I announced that I have been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, which is a cancer of the plasma cells.
0:44.6	And I've been in treatment since, I guess, the end of May.
0:48.8	And here we are in January.
0:50.2	And I am nearly done with what they call call induction treatment and I couldn't be more
0:55.7	grateful to be nearly done with this and it's been a wits have been great so this is a really I'm really
1:01.4	looking forward to being off treatment or off this specific treatment it's pretty heavy
1:05.7	lots of chemos and things so my my brain isn't exactly where I want it to be, especially today. I feel like I'm a little
1:11.4	bit, you know, foggy. Yes, foggy brain, that sort of thing. So, but for the most part, my life is,
1:18.9	it looks very similar to anybody else's life. I'm taking the kids to school, cooking dinner. I'm
1:25.6	able to do so much. So it's not quite like a,
1:28.7	you know, there's some different avenues of treatment for different cancers that are so much
1:32.4	worse. And this is, in some ways, I have a pretty normal life.
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